(1073 quotes found)
“A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.”
Wendell Berry
“Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.”
Ronald Reagan
“I know [my corn plants] intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.”
Barbara McClintock
“It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say "damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.." you gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE?"”
Tupac Shakur
“As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Well I love the way the world is your gardenAnd you plant your seeds and you let them growAnd you take things out of the ground just likeYou take what comes, but you never know.”
Dar Williams
“HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.”
Ambrose Bierce
“A flower is how plants smile.”
Peter Hille
“There is no unbelief; Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod, And waits to see it push away the clod, He trusts in God”
Lizzie York Case
